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Example sentences for: blithely
How can you use “blithely” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Rather, I argue that it cannot be blithely discounted, as is Finkelstein's wont.
One caveat: never assume blithely that an odd word or suspicious phrase is as lubricious as it sounds.
It is a campaign, after all, in which the challenger's slogan is "Too many lies for too long," where each candidate blithely runs ads accusing his opponent of coddling child pornographers, and where virtually the only intelligible sentences of the so-called debates were "Stop being rude!"
As for her discussion of the graduated tax and the flat-tax proposal, she blithely opines that taxing higher-income individuals is OK because the dollars are "less precious," but she knows that we are talking about percentages of their total income, not a fixed amount.
The circonflexe , on the other hand, is really a sign of orthography , not pronunciation, being a reminder of a dropped s—it is usually there for historical reasons but connoting a reason which has long since ceased to make sense and which modern French speakers have probably been blithely unaware of.